bar-frequenter

Updated: May 18, 2025

Holmes was no stronger-headed than most youngsters of his temperament and circumstances, and Laurence did not want to see him soured and dejected by disappointment all round throw himself in with the reckless, indiscriminate bar-frequenter, of whom there were not lacking woeful examples in those days, though, poor fellows, much from the same motive, to drown care; and into this current would Holmes in all probability be swept if left by himself in Johannesburg.

Bertram Mitford - The Sign of the Spider